Free Webinar: Building Better Surveys with SurveyGizmo’s New Features

August 15th, 2007

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We’re having a new feature round-up webinar
UPDATE: Space is filling up fast, so get in now if you’re interested

Day: Tues, August 21st
Time: 3pm Eastern Time
Topic: New features & tips, plus time- saving methods for effective survey building
Your Hosts:Co-founders:
Christian Vanek,
Scott McDaniel
Learn why, with all of our new features & upgrades, SurveyGizmo is […]

SurveyGizmo meets HIPAA and Safe Harbor Guidlines

May 23rd, 2007

SurveyGizmo is happy to announce that we now have HIPAA and Safe Harbor certifications.  These are two forms of personal information protection. HIPAA is a US law regarding health information and Safe Harbor is US Department of Commerce program to help business comply with EU privacy laws. Some of you might find it interesting that […]

TechStars Call for Seed Funding Proposals

March 16th, 2007

I just got back from SXSW and had the pleasure of meeting David Cohen of  ColoradoStartups and  TechStars at one of the evening parties.  TechStars provides up to $15,000 in seed funding for your online business idea and help you turn it into something real.  Basically you come to Boulder, Colorado for the summer and […]

Part-time Job: Copywriter for SurveyGizmo, Boulder, Colorado

December 12th, 2006

UPDATE: We hired someone!

Widgix Software is looking for an experienced copywriter to create documentation, tutorials, and maybe do some blogging for our flagship product, SurveyGizmo (http://www.surveygizmo.com). You can see examples of the sort of writing on our wiki & here on our blog

The Job:
The writing is a little bit marketing and little bit technical. The audience we’re writing for is usually non-technical, so having a knack for taking a topic and breaking it down into bite sized pieces anyone can grasp is what we are after. This is definitely not manual writing on how to set your VCR clock! The marketing comes into play deciding

SurveyGizmo adds MySpace surveys

October 28th, 2006

SurveyGizmo has added support for embedding surveys, polls, and contact forms on MySpace.com. We had so much call for this lattle it was a no brainer feature to add. It was the number one thing people searched the site for… interesting. This also has a lot of potential for using in other websites, […]

Another way keep up with SurveyGizmo: Our Mac Dashboard Survey Widget

October 19th, 2006

Do you run surveys? Do you have a Mac? Then monitoring & managing your surveys is just one keystroke away thanks to our brand new Apple dashboard survey widget, developed in partnership with wdgty.
For those of you who unfamiliar with the term a widget is a mini-application that runs on the Apple OS X Dashboard. […]

Creating Contact, Lead Generation, Newsletter, and Support Forms in SurveyGizmo

October 13th, 2006

We’ve written a how-to guide on Creating Contact, Support, and Lead Generation forms over at SurveyGizmo today. There is also a tutorial in the wiki for even more on embedding contact forms.
The new contact form and lead gen form templates are great for our WordPress survey plugin users. It provides a great and simple alternative […]

WordPress Survey Plugin for SurveyGizmo

September 27th, 2006

We released a Survey WordPress plug over at SurveyGizmo this week.The SurveyGizmo plugin can be used to run surveys, polls, contact forms, lead generation forms, newsletter signups, data collection, etc. Keep track of survey stats from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard.

You get all the power of a full featured survey tool (http://www.surveygizmo.com) with 19 […]

Two free services to compare your website popularity compared to your competitors

July 20th, 2006

If you want to quickly take the pulse of your site, brand, or product against your competitors (or against anything else) you might a look at these two mashups of web services.
Alexaholic lets you compare the Alexa traffic rankings of up to five websites side-by-side.

For a slightly silly, but still useful Google snapshot […]

The first step is admitting you have a problem

July 10th, 2006

We know our apps aren’t perfect. In fact we know better than anyone where the frayed edges are, the dirty little secrets are hidden, and the bodies are buried. And this is as it should be.
We work on improving these areas daily. Now conpare this with a large email service provider we are both […]